The Markets

A Bloomberg news report said six of the nine largest U.S. target-date fund providers by assets have junk bonds in their 2010 portfolios.

Investors expect moderate economic growth and solid returns in global equities in 2010, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for December.

Eastman Kodak workers recently got some good news.

Ford Motor Co. will reinstate its 401(k) match in 2010, according to a company announcement.

In a background of lingering uncertainty for investors, many mutual fund managers have continued to attract significant inflows to their stock and bond funds in 2009.

While November’s mutual fund inflow to fixed income still added up to $33 billion, that was down from the $40 billion pumped into bond funds for each of...

John Hancock Funds has completed the adoption of Fiduciary Management Associates’ FMA Small Company Portfolio, and has launched it as the new John Hancock Small Company Fund (JCSAX).

Another strong November showing has allowed taxable bond ETFs to walk off with “most popular” honors, with $32.1 billion in net year-to-date inflows, according to Morningstar.

Flows into bond funds in November, although somewhat off from the blistering pace of the prior three months, were very robust at $38 billion, according to Strategic Insight...

In its annual investment outlook, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research projected above-consensus GDP growth and a bullish outlook for equities.

2009 could be another record-setting year for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to a new report.

Looks like bonds are back—and in a big way. 

According to the latest ETF Snapshot report by State Street Global Advisers (SSgA), as of November 30, assets in the U.S. exchange-traded fund industry totaled approximately $739 billion,...

Retirement plan participants invested in target-date funds along with other funds offered by the plan could end up with a potentially inferior portfolio in terms of risk/return tradeoff,...

Plans in the Callan DC Index underperformed the average comparable (2030) target-date fund last quarter, and the difference in allocations to equity could explain why.

The Financial Research Corporation (FRC) predicts that if the market remains stable and does not go through another crisis within the next five years, sub-advised mutual fund and...

The stock market is poised to perform fairly well in 2010, according to portfolio managers at T. Rowe Price.

Target-date funds with high equity allocation at retirement have come under fire lately, but T. Rowe Price is sticking with its strategy.

While exchange-traded-fund (ETF) assets will continue to grow rapidly, ETF providers see 401(k) accounts as a continued challenge, according to Cerulli Associates.

For the third consecutive month, investors deposited a $40 billion-plus amount into bond funds, bringing year-to-date bond fund flow volumes to an enormous $330 billion, according to data...